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Games got more complex, also it's not like the old netcode was flawless either.

I don't think you can find a more polished and well supported FPS on the market than CSGO right now, and at $15 it's a hell of a bargain. Grab it on a sale and it's a steal. CSGO and Dota 2 are the only games holding my attention right now.

Burned by Hi-Rez twice now, not touching this with a 10 foot pole.

I understand, I have more friends who think like you than think like me :p I find it relaxing to compete, and I enjoy games of skill. I feel like I'm wasting my time playing single player games; it feels like virtual masturbation. With multiplayer I feel like I'm being social, to some...

I am the exact opposite. I almost exclusively play competitive multiplayer games, with a few random coop games thrown in. I play for the challenge, and the competition. I play these because skill matters in these games, I either objectively play better or worse, and can always find room for...

A e-sport quality combination of Counter-Strike and Bad Company 2 right now.

Is it still super grindy to get c-bills as a free player? That was what turned me off of it originally, enjoyed the gameplay, but feeling like I'd have to grind 40+ hours per mech was a little discouraging.

Ignore for a fact that 5 games really doesn't give you a breadth of experience: "Oh man, I played 5 matches on Battlefield 3, and I can say, without a doubt, that vehicles are totally fucking broken." "Oh man, I played 5 matches in Counter Strike, the AWP is fucking OP." "I played 5...

I just can't get sucked into sandboxes like that anymore. When I was a kid it was a lot easier, but I also had oodles of time. I struggle immersing myself in most of these sandbox games because I find a lot of it to just just asinine.

Take Skyrim (Well, not actually skryim, I didn't buy it, but Oblivion or Morrowind) boring to me. Like, super boring. I wandered around, talked to some people, stole stuff, went out in the world, dived into a cave, killed some monsters, went back to town to sell all of my stuff and then tried...

I need competitive, skill based multiplayer. Only games single player games I've completed recently were Mass Effect 1 and 2 (I have 3, I started a campaign, but I haven't even left earth) I really just can't stand single player games anymore. If the AI isn't outright cheating, the...

At least he reads your comments :(

To the first half: That's where most of my argumentation has been directed at. MOBA's do take skill, and lots of it, to be at the top. I've played both LoL and Dota, and I would certainly argue that of the two, Dota is much more difficult, and that LoL suffers from a higher floor, lower...

Not a WC3 fan?

Dota is basically an ultra condensed version of a Warcraft 3 match. Sure, it borrowed elements from predecessors (Aeon of Strife most notably) but WC3 gave a very strong foundation to build off of. Playing WC3 ladder, and transitioning to Dota was extremely easy, because so many elements...

Ganking an over extended enemy is extremely common. You aren't stuck in your lane, you can move between them, and doing so effectively is what gains you an advantage. It is extremely easy to 'flank' enemies in Dota, and typically the hero that goes in the middle lane has a responsibility to do...

Never played DAOC, but did play EQ, Aion, and WAR which suffered badly from those.

Map awareness, scouting, resource management, time as a resource, and unit positioning are all there. Being inefficient gathering resources (last hits on creeps) seriously hampers your chances of success. Scouting is extremely important (and wards are the best scouts) and not having...

On Topic: Shooters aren't really the favored game type anymore - MMO's and MOBA's beat them pretty handily in terms of players and tournaments. Plus single player RPG's are pretty big too, Skyrim had an estimated 10 million units sold, which rivals most CoD releases. Also.... Sorry Golden and...

How old is your son? I had plenty of friends growing up that just didn't care about dialogue or story one bit, and simply enjoyed action games. Maybe he's just too young to appreciate a game with an in depth story? Does he read? If so, he may find the story's in games to be trite...

I think it's a couple reasons: More than most other games, it's a lot easier to mechanically get to the level of a pro player in Dota. After that, it's mostly just game sense and game knowledge. You watch a top tier tournament, and you can be like "I could do that!" as opposed to say...

Maybe 10 years ago. Now? I'll pass.

I haven't played in quite some time, so take it with a grain of salt: Divert their attention, if you can get some air units, or cliff hoppers, harass their mineral line to try and pull some forces away from the choke, then try to bust it down. Divide and conquer. If they're really turtling...

Hell no, I'm a colgate guy.

I haven't personally tried it, but over at SPUF, people are saying that ESEA pugs are just as bad, if not worse, than normal matchmaking...care to comment on that?

BF3 is good. But BF has never been about twitch, it's been about large maps and combined arms. CSGO is a lot of fun, and for $15 it's a pretty solid bargain. I like it a lot, and it, along with Dota 2, are my staple multiplayer games right now.

I know this was considered a bit of a rig crusher when it came out, but being as I never buy single player games at release / full price, I never bothered to really delve into what the game was about. Now I find myself in a situation of not really being able to play multiplayer games and am...

You realize you sound like a spoil sport right? Hear me out man, for shits and giggles :D Football: You've got down time on offense/defense, or in backyard you're probably taking plenty of beer breaks. Baseball: Uh, yeah. Golf: Ohhhhh yeah. Basketball: Helps my argument the...

There's plenty of ass sitting and cheeto time in every activity, physical or not. :rolleyes: More like: I get to dip into a massive pool of like minded individuals, instead of trying to round up 9 other real people. Minimal set up time. Easy to pick up, play, and put down. Fast, rarely will...

See, I'm really competitive and like using video games as an outlet for that, because I just feel it has a whole lot of practical upsides vs. say...playing in my local intramural league. I practice (not SC2, I quit because I burned out quick, but playing lots of CSGO and Dota 2) just to play...

Dude that video sucked, it was just him hating and nitpicking.

When you're actually playing, and hitting high APM rates, (at least for me...) you generally have some pretty serious adrenaline rushes going on. Just flat out exhilarating sometimes, had lots of fun. Practice, and really the ability to multi-task your mind. The physical part is fairly easy...

Anita strikes me as generically feminist. I tried googling major fundamental flaws with feminism, and just got a bunch of misogynistic forums stroking each other over how much they hate women...

I'm not...at all. Do I need it for multiplayer? How much is it going to cost? Pretty much done with Blizzard as a developer after SC2...

EH, I think lens flare is there to simulate more of the human eyeball effect than anything, same with bloom. I certainly don't have lens flare, but at certain angles the sun can get right in my fuckin eye and I'm like "AHHHHHHH BLIND!!" and that's what lens flare tends to do, so...yes it's...

True, but LoL and Dota don't have that rock/paper/scissors to nearly the extent that it exists in WoW. Dota especially less so because of item diversity. You start on even ground in these games and it's entirely up to how well you play in a given match. Whereas WoW it's all up to who...

Have you ever played League or Dota? Because a statement like that implies you haven't, or if you did, you didn't try very hard. There is plenty of sane, and serious, competition. There is a lot of skill involved.

LOL I didn't know all that back history about the movie, what a cluster fuck! I too enjoyed Alien 3 for essentially all the reasons you pointed out, don't get the hate for the movie either. Also, given how basically everybody in the prison gets killed, Hicks and Newt were still going to...

And Ashe can sit in base in LoL and shoot frost arrows. Twisted Fate and Pantheon can teleport around the map. Nightmare guy turns off all enemies vision. Karthus can do a global team nuke that scales upwards in damage with items. Gangplank can summon a global AOE slow/nuke. There's no...

I still have 1 key as well.